ATG: Who Ranks Higher? Terence Crawford or Joe Calzaghe

What's wrong with throwing a parade after becoming 3x undisputed? It's not like Berlanga throwing a parade after he lost to Canelo.

 

Man slappy is totally underrated

 

So now, Crawford drained himself? Y'all seriously have zero problems sounding silly to discredit everything that man does. Crawford fought in the amateurs as a lightweight. Never fighting over 132lbs. There's this thing call maturity. Something your body tends to do as you get older. Metabolism slows down, you get naturally stronger. You can change your diet, workouts, etc... to help you develop physically as you get older.

During this time, your natural body weight may (and most likely will) increase. Crawford turned professional and was fighting at 135lbs, making weight effortlessly. After he won his first title, he fought just one more time at the division and felt physically he needed to move up, so he did. Winning his first undisputed status at 140lbs. Before the Indongo fight he expressed that making 140 was beginning to become a challenge and was hinting to the fact he was moving up. When he got to 147lbs, his weight was consistently brought up as a reason for his opponents to either have an advantage over him, and/or not take him seriously as a threat. Jeff Horn, Jose Benavidez, Kell Brook, Kavaliauskas, Shawn Porter, & Errol Spence all talked about Crawford being the smaller, weaker opponent vs them. All were stopped. Crawford moved up to 154lbs to fight Madrimov, people say he "struggled" because he didn't stop him. Said that maybe 154lbs is probably too big for him and his power isn't carrying up. Then Crawford spends a year developing and preparing his body to face Canelo and we see that he was at the very least just as strong as Canelo as he was the one backing Canelo up.

How is it Crawford can't get the credit for his hard work, but instead get discredited as if he was looking for an easy route to greatness. Crawford didn't normally walk around at 180-90lbs, He spent a year packing on muscle, all while he is getting older. He's not some skinny kid anymore.

 

When this thread was made, the answer would've been Calzaghe, now it is Crawford.

 

Agree as to Joe was trying to make the fight.

JC would have boxed the pants of Sven. Mundine was putting on a good showing with no am experience and such a short boxing career, until he got KO'd. Joe would have boxed his ears off more so than he did against Jeff Lacy.

 

Crawford for sure.